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It's not easy to decide what is more striking in this passage. Is it the sharp juxtaposition of "the final measure of a system's significance" and "a metaphor, root or not," as, simply, "a rhetorical device"? Or is it the flat-out classification of "prehension," not as a "concept" (as in the earlier chapter in the same book entitled, "Whitehead's Concept of Prehension" \[103-113\]), but as, precisely, a "metaphor"? Or is it the use in the last sentence of the formulation, "ultimate analogy or metaphor," instead of "ultimate metaphor or analogy," which would at least leave room for the threefold distinction he elsewhere tries to make between both "metaphorical" and "literal" predications and "analogical" ones?

Anyhow, to be oriented by what Hartshorne says here is to define metaphysics as I do as precisely and only logical analysis ("transcendental deduction") of the necessary presuppositions of any and all meaning, leaving even "human experiencing" as no more than the "primary sample of concrete reality" from which such analysis (or deduction) proceeds.

20 December 2005